Seanad debates

Thursday, 26 April 2007

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Cathaoirleach i gceannas ar 10.30 a.m.
• Business of Seanad (1 speech)
  I have notice from Senator Norris that, on the motion for the Adjournment of the House today, he proposes to raise the following matter: The need for the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law...
• Order of Business (36 speeches)
  The Order of Business is No. 1, a motion concerning a Ministerial Order required to allow the Dublin Docklands Development Authority to prepare a draft planning scheme for the Poolbeg area of the...
• Poolbeg Peninsula: Motion (1 speech)
  I move: That Seanad Éireann approves the following order in draft: Specification of an area of the Poolbeg Peninsula as an area for which the Dublin Docklands Development Authority may prepare...
• Commission of Investigation into Leas Cross Nursing Home: Motion. (10 speeches)
  I move: That Seanad Éireann, bearing in mind the specific matters considered by Government to be of a significant public concern arising from the deaths of residents of the Leas Cross Nursing...
• Risk Equalisation: Motion (24 speeches)
  I move: That Seanad Éireann approves the following regulations in draft: Risk Equalisation (Amendment) Scheme, 2007, copies of which have been laid in draft form before Seanad Éireann on 24...
• Matter of Concern to Member (2 speeches)
  I have recieved notice from Senator O'Toole of a matter of concern under Standing Order 30. The Senator has two minutes.
• Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (27 speeches)
  I move: That Seanad Eireann resolves that sections 2 to 12, 14 and 17 of the Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 (No. 39 of 1998) shall continue in operation for the period of 12...
• Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Second Stage (31 speeches)
  Question proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
• Adjournment Matters (0 speeches)
  Citizenship Applications.
  • Citizenship Applications. (3 speeches)
    This is a serious matter and I am glad that the Minister of State who heard my opinions on the Criminal Justice Bill is here because I made the point that this is all of a piece with the...
  • Hereditary Disorders. (3 speeches)
    I welcome the Minister of State to the House. Haemochromatosis is an hereditary and potentially life-threatening disorder which affects a considerable number of Irish people. While it can be...
  • Schools Building Projects. (3 speeches)
    Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice founded the Christian Brothers and set up his first school in Waterford at Mount Sion. Although I am a De La Salle man, I am deeply proud of the Christian Brothers'...